Vancouver, WA --- Storytelling is
an age-old powerful teaching modality that is guaranteed to touch the
mind and heart of a child. Imagine sitting before a captive audience
of children and watching their eyes light up and facial expressions
change as you share a story. Now, picture the reactions of the same
room full of attentive youngsters as you place felt characters,
props, and other visuals on a board and turn story hour into a real
life adventure!

Karen Salomon, owner of Fun Felt
For Kids, an independent Consultant of Story Time Felts products,
started her home-based Consultantship in December 1998, after having
been introduced to the educational products only a few short months
before. In February 2000, at Story Time Felts convention in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Salomon was awarded the companyís
prestigious Stargazer Award in appreciation for sharing her creative
ideas. Salomonís creative concepts included taking the company
to the Internet, http://www.funfelt.com . Although a few other Consultants had
built websites prior to Salomon's arrival on the scene, Salomon's
online presence seemed to flourish quickly. In just over a year,
Salomon has built an organization of over 200 new Consultants and
still recruiting!

Patti Gardner, Vice President of
Sales and Marketing for Story Time Felts, states, "Karen was awarded
one of the highest company awards in 1999, the Stargazer, for her
outstanding leadership in successfully combining the Internet with a
home party business. Karen has been a great support and leader to not
only her personal team but her entire organization."

Salomon shares, "The Company has
realized through my efforts that the Internet is yet another tool for
reaching more children, parents, and educators, as they search the
Internet for interactive learning tools to use or home-based business
opportunities for themselves." Although Salomon's sales are still
primarily accomplished through direct interactive demonstrations, the
website has enhanced her business and allowed her to take it to
higher levels in a short period of time.

Story telling encourages children
to read and opens doors to the world of literature. Story telling
combined with felt play is fun for both the listeners and Story Time Felts! "Too often children are passive and expect to be
entertained," relates Salomon. "These colorful and artistically
designed products stimulate their imaginations as they listen to the
stories and create their own." In essence, felt captures the
children's attention, gives them something creative and quiet to play
with, and helps them focus and concentrate, all while learning and
having fun!

Thanks to Karen Wilson-Dooley from
A
Marketing Solution for help with this
press release and its submission!